Jobfox Takes Aim At Poorly Performing Job Boards, Introduces First Career Site To Brand Professionals Rather Than Job Listings

Mclean, VA - Jobfox recently launched the Internet's first comprehensive personal-branding site giving professionals the controls and the tools they need to generate ongoing career-advancement opportunities. Jobfox, the only career site to showcase top job candidates rather than jobs, equips professionals with state-of-the-art communications and Web technologies. With Jobfox, professionals stay career-marketable and always- connected to new job possibilities (http://www.jobfox.com).

Imagine: Your own personally branded career space that intelligently drives companies to your unique brand of skills, strengths and career aspirations. A resume that alerts your mobile phone, via text messaging, whenever it is viewed by a potential employer. Being just an instant messaging chat away from landing your next dream job.

With Jobfox, all of the above are now realities.

"More than 500,000 professionals, in Jobfox test markets throughout the United States, have been a tremendous help and inspiration for creating the first candidate-centric career site," said Jobfox CEO Rob McGovern, who is also the former CEO and founder of CareerBuilder, now owned by media conglomerates Tribune, Gannett and McClatchy. "Jobfox is an exciting new Web hub where talent-rich professionals can comfortably brand their strengths and attract talent-hungry companies. Everyone wins when work/life goals match business goals."

Hundreds of employers have also subscribed with Jobfox as a more intuitive way to reach top professionals for job openings. New employer customers include multinational companies such as Equifax Inc., GEICO and UPS.

Jobfox embraces how today's sought-after professionals approach new job opportunities and how they communicate -- both online and with their mobile devices. Features include:

• Jobfox Page for Personal Branding. The Jobfox Page is free, including a unique "URL" http://www.jobfox.com/people/sarahsmith, for example). Professionals can dynamically showcase professional skills, talents, career aspirations and job-change receptiveness. Built-in widgets enable candidates to easily share their Jobfox Pages on other social networking sites such as MySpace.
• Jobfox Resume Tracker. Tired of sending out resumes that seem to enter a black hole in cyberspace? With Jobfox's free Resume Tracker, a candidate's resume automatically sends a mobile text message whenever it has been viewed by an employer. Resume Tracker works on any Web site
• including with Jobfox, Monster, CareerBuilder, Craiglist and with corporate employment sites. Your new Jobfox resume will also link viewers to your Jobfox Page.
• Precision Skills Matching. On Jobfox, each professional creates a unique brand of skills and experiences. Jobfox's intelligent job-fit technology drives only the best-matched openings to candidates.
• IM Chat with Employers. Jobfox candidates can opt to share their online instant messaging availability with prospective employers. This enables employers -- in real time -- to initiate chats and set up times for further discussions.
• Jobfox Tracking Center. Providing candidates with additional online information about employer matches, job-fit rankings and employer levels of interest.

"The top professionals have already given up on the old job-board game," McGovern said. "High achievers don't have the time or the need to keyword search through hundreds of job postings. Jobfox puts the spotlight on career- minded candidates instead of job listing, turning the traditional job-board model upside down."

SOURCE: Jobfox